CBS Evening News - 1999-10-06
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[0:00] bkids.com.
[0:01] >> Your tax dollars bought this mansion
[0:03] with money that was supposed to feed
[0:06] poor children. The siege near Waco. Was
[0:10] the US military more involved than was
[0:12] publicly known? And the American dream.
[0:16] Proof tonight that music can change
[0:19] lives.
[0:21] [music]
[0:24] This is the CBS Evening News [music]
[0:28] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:31] headquarters in New York. [music]
[0:34] >> Good evening. Health insurance reform
[0:36] legislation in Congress may be dead or
[0:39] dying again. House Republicans late
[0:41] today passed one version that President
[0:43] Clinton is almost sure to veto. The
[0:46] longstalled, heavily lobbyed patients
[0:48] bill of rights is supposed to give
[0:51] people more say in the decisions of
[0:53] managed health care plans. Instead, it
[0:56] is the latest example of political
[0:58] gridlock turning into a chain reaction
[1:00] pileup of the nation's agenda. We take
[1:03] you to CBS News chief Washington
[1:05] correspondent Bob Shaver. Bob, what's
[1:07] going on there? Well, Dan, for weeks
[1:09] now, support has been growing in the
[1:11] House of Representatives for bipartisan
[1:13] legislation to reform HMOs and allow
[1:16] people to sue them. But the House
[1:18] Republican leaders and the insurance
[1:20] industry are dead set against the
[1:22] reforms. And today, the House leaders
[1:24] took steps that will make it very
[1:26] difficult for even supporters of the
[1:28] reforms to vote for them. Democrats from
[1:30] the president on down are just furious.
[1:34] In the dead of the night last night, the
[1:37] House leaders concocted a process filled
[1:40] with enough poison pills and legislative
[1:42] slight of hand to practically guarante